Actes Sud

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Actes Sud
legal form
founding 1978
Seat Arles , France
management Jean-Paul Capitani
Number of employees 212 (2017)
sales € 65 million (2011)
Branch Publishing
Website www.actes-sud.fr

Actes Sud is a French publishing house founded in 1978 in Arles by Hubert Nyssen .

history

The Actes Sud were published by the “Atelier de cartographie thématique et statistique” (ACTeS). Like this, their initial seat was a sheep farm in Paradou , a village in the Vallée des Baux , where the founder, Hubert Nyssen, together with his wife Christine Le Bœuf, the granddaughter of the Belgian banker and patron Henry Le Bœuf, met Françoise Nyssen , Bertrand Py and Jean-Paul Capitani met.

In 1983, Actes Sud was relocated to “Le Méjan” in Arles, now at Nina Berberova , as a tribute to an author whose discovery was important for the development of the publishing house.

At the beginning this provincial situation was a source of ridicule because it was part of the French tradition of locating publishing houses in Paris . After the suspicion that this meant opposition to the centralist hegemony , Actes Sud opened a press office for public relations in Paris in 1987 .

job

Acquisitions

Éditions Solin, founded in 1984, was acquired in 1989 and integrated as Actes Sud - Éditions Solin. L'An 2, founded in 2002, was acquired in 2005 and integrated as Actes Sud - L'An 2

In January 2013, Actes Sud announced the acquisition of Payot & Rivages.

Rows

  • Since 2007, Actes Sud has had “Actes Sud Junior”, a department that has specialized in the publication of youth literature and is headed by Thierry Magnier .
  • In October 2013, Actes Sud began “ Exofictions ”, a new series focused on science fiction . The program manager is Manucoteauel Trix. The first book of this series is Silo , a work by Hugh Howey ..

Other areas of work

Actes Sud runs a small network of libraries and also publishes CDs .

Prices

Actes South today (August 2018) a catalog of approximately 11,500 titles and more than two hundred employees, in the majority of the sites Arles and Paris. About twenty external consultants and a large number of translators work for Actes Sud in France and around the world.

particularities

Actes Sud often selects Garamond ( ITC ) for their publications.

Authors

The main published authors are:

Departments

  • Actes Sud BD
  • Actes Sud - Classica
  • Actes Sud Junior
  • Editions de l'An 2
  • Actes noirs
  • Actes Sud - Papiers
  • Actes Sud - Solin
  • Actes Sud - Sindbad
  • Babel (collection)
  • Babel noir
  • Domaine du possible (Head of Cyril Dion )
  • Exofictions
  • Photo Poche

Affiliate Editors

Actes Sud has developed a form of collaboration with other publishers, the éditeurs associés , who share the same ideas of claim and uniqueness. These publishers continue their own publishing programs completely independently, without being integrated into Actes Sud, unlike Éditions Solin and L'An 2. This group includes:

  • Editions Errance
  • Sindbad édition
  • Hélium (éditions)
  • Editions Jacqueline Chambon
  • Gaïa Editions
  • Éditions Imprimerie nationale
  • Les liens qui libèrent
  • Payot & Rivages
  • Editions Picard
  • Éditions du Rouergue
  • Editions Textuel
  • Editions Thierry Magnier

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Le Goncourt force la croissance d'Actes Sud. Retrieved November 11, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Editions Solin. Retrieved August 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ . ACTES SUD - l'An 2. Accessed August 16, 2018 . .
  4. ^ Alain Beuve-Méry: Actes Sud rachète Payot & Rivages. Le Monde éco & entreptise, February 3, 2013, accessed January 5, 2013 .
  5. ^ Nicolas Mathieu, prix Goncourt 2018 pour Leurs enfants après eux . In: FIGARO . November 7, 2018 ( lefigaro.fr [accessed November 11, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Actes Sud racheté Payot & Rivages. www.lemonde.fr, January 3, 2013, accessed August 15, 2018 (French).